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Back to TEDxLive 2013: Photo’s

Last week in Podium Mozaiek in Amsterdam, we had a blast with TEDxAmsterdam Live. Our local programme was really inspiring, the location was great, our audience the best and watching the TED Global stream live from Edinburgh together is always a very

By Matthijs on June 18, 2013

I got to play around with Google Glass – Here’s my experience

I talked about Google Glass before, there are some really positive articles out there, and some that even go as far by claiming the zombie metaphor as the appropriate one to describe the usage of this new wearable device. Enough opinions, only few pe

By Thomas van Manen on June 17, 2013

Sjoerd van der Linde: The Story about our Past [#TEDxAmsLive]

People often think of archaeology as a harmless science that is only about the past. But is the past really ‘dead’? Sjoerd van der Linde was our third speaker in the local program at TEDxLive in Podium Mozaïek this afternoon. What would we do i

By michieldaalmans on June 12, 2013

Marianne Gybels: “Forget about runkeeper, save lives with data” [#TEDxAmsLive]

Marianne Gybels was our second speaker in the local program of TEDxAmsterdam live, before the livestream of TEDGlobal kicked in. Gybels is working at AmLAb, a hub that wants to collaborate with development cooperations to use new information technolo

By michieldaalmans on June 12, 2013

Ap Verheggen: “Extreme weather needs extreme solutions” [#TEDxAmsLive]

At TEDxAmsterdamLive, this afternoon in Podium Mozaiek in Amsterdam West, Ap Verheggen was our first speaker in the local program. Verheggen is an artist, who likes to make the impossible possible, in a very practical but almost inconceivable way. Ve

By michieldaalmans on June 12, 2013

What Design Can Do: Dream big, dream better [Event Report #3]

TED originally started out as a conference about the latest developments for Technology, Education and Design. Nowadays, it has got a much wider range as the many personal touching stories at the last TEDxAmsterdam conference proved. But we still wan

By Sanne van der Beek on June 10, 2013

What Design Can Do: The food system, hungry for design [Event Report #2]

TED originally started out as a conference about the latest developments for Technology, Education and Design. Nowadays, it has got a much wider range as the many personal touching stories at the last TEDxAmsterdam conference proved. But we still wan

By Sanne van der Beek on June 4, 2013

Join the TEDxAmsterdam blogging team!

At TEDxAmsterdam, we’re currently doing 5 events a year, and we keep our fans and audiences up to date via several websites and social media channels. At our “company blog” (yes, that’s where you are right now) we want to keep

By Matthijs on June 4, 2013

TEDxAmsterdamLive 2013: Introducing the speakers!

After the TEDxLive 2013 team announced host Zarayda Groenhart earlier this week, we received a lot of great feedback and also a number of questions concerning the programme. In this post, find out what awaits you on June 12: the day TEDxLive will tak

By Robert Duinmaijer on June 3, 2013

Fairphone: “Buy a phone, start a movement!”

Recent catastrophic events in Bangladesh shook up the fashion industry and once more started the discussion about manufacturing circumstances of some of the clothing items we wear on our backs every day. But unfortunately simply discussing does not a

By Evelyn Grunau on May 31, 2013